Mars: War Logs
TLDR
Mars: War Logs is one of those gems that lurks behind “A” titles, just waiting to shine. Very much like Mad Max or WoW in playability, tactics, NPC aggro proc, and utility of various game strategies, the GUI will be familiar to anyone who has played a 3rd person and the particulars are not complicated; you can also change keybinds for fine-tuning. The detailed plot can go in at least three different major directions near the end, and choices determine results on several questlines, but the first two chapters will be very similar/same for any given playthrough. First playthrough on"normal" difficulty was challenging to learn but not difficult, and my second on “difficult” wasn’t too bad
! (except for the Moles in 2 particular encounters)… but “Extreme” has me stumped. There must be a build order that I haven’t identified correctly… yet.
– Real player with 92.8 hrs in game
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Single-player action RPG with 3rd person view, in the sci-fi setting. Very story-driven, which means NO for the open-world experience. But there is none good tale as well. Just a decent action part in a narrow tunnel of somewhat “noir” agenda. In truth, the game isn’t all bad, it’s just plain and mediocre. But I’m freaked out by how it is presenting itself there on Steam: “An Intense Cyberpunk Rpg On the Red Planet!” While it is really telling about humans on the fourth planet, it is as far from cyberpunk, like me from being a wealthy man. And “Intense” means it is very short and linear. Not a good point to present for decent “story-rich” RPG, you agree?
– Real player with 33.7 hrs in game
The Last From Mars
‘The Last From Mars’ is a pretty traditional alien shooter. You get wave after wave of cute looking aliens all wanting to eat you alive, or maybe implant their eggs into your stomach. There is only one play area here and a handful of guns with a few powerups thrown in for good measure. It looks OK I guess and feels OK to play, but none of it is original and there is nothing ‘stand-out’ here. I would have liked to have seen it a little chapter than £5.79 (the current asking price) as there isn’t a lot of content here, but even so, I feel you will probably get your money’s worth if you take the time to get into the game. Personally, I found it all too…“meh” to bother with, but I do still recommend it (I just wish I could be neutral about it).
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
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Stress Random
what this game lacks in polish, varied content, and technical skill, it makes up for with pure, unhinged creativity. it’s worth the price solely for the brief story and the ms paint art. i genuinely enjoyed what i have played so far, and i will enjoy it when i play more. i am so excited for what comes next from this developer.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
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Gaia Beyond
Gaia Beyond is a handcrafted 2D Action-RPG in space.
-multiple save slots, quicksave and quickload, autosaves.
-open world
-quest with multiple solutions
-ship building, upgrade-able weapons
-fight stations with your ship
Sure we’re fans of the genre and bound to like the game more than the usual fare,but those looking for an original and thrilling, handcrafted open world 2d space shooter, this will not disappoint. Gaia Beyond introduced a world with characters I actually cared about, and combat gameplay I could get behind. This game really does have something for every sci-fi shooter fan: Good writing, characters with depth(you get to meet the most spaced-out guys in the galaxy), huge amount of side quests(some with multiple solutions), factions, intimidating ships, upgrade-able ships and weapons, mining, trading, nice OST etc. It was not a very demanding game. You were just a simple nobody mining and shooting your way up, trying to make your way in this seemingly peaceful mysterious space. While all the ships were actually flying in the game world in real time, most of the time it was quite relaxed. Some fights were tough when I didn’t upgrade or choose my guns properly. It played especially good on big monitor(this game has 4K support). No other 2d space shooter I’ve ever played has impressed me like this one. Maybe Starsector has better combat than this but that’s the only thing it is better. I’d played 3030 Deathwar Redux , Star Valor, and Starcom Nexus, this game is better. After playing for around 30 hours , I doubt that I had reached even halfway of the main story, this game is loooooong. Yuki, one of the game writer, said the game is still a bit rough around the edges, but I could see that they were updating and patching up the game almost monthly, and they were quite active on the forum answering questions and acknowledging bugs, so I would not worry about that at all.
– Real player with 51.1 hrs in game
I would recommend this so much, but…I’d wait until the main quest is extended by at least 300%.
In a nutshell: Great game but I’d wait until the main quest is extended by at least 300%. Don’t bother grinding unless you really want to, regardless of main story.
Long review: This is a very cool 2D “Galaxy on fire 2-ish” space action RPG game where you explore, mine, hunt and upgrade your ships and weapons. Kind of like Zelda / Diablo in a spaceship and a huge map set in our solar system in a dystopian future.
– Real player with 34.3 hrs in game
The Technomancer
I vacillated at first about buying this game. I’m a novice gamer, just started playing last year, in fact. As a fulltime novelist, I have down-time between books, when I need to rest my brain, and I liked the idea of playing story-driven games for entertainment.
I started out with ALIEN ISOLATION, being a huge fan of the ALIEN saga, and had a blast. I went on to devour DISHONORED and several ASSASSIN CREED installments, then all of the DRAGON AGE games, where I discovered my gaming soul-mate: multi-faceted storylines, coupled with compelling characters, challenging combat situations, and complex moral decisions. I followed DRAGON AGE with all the MASS EFFECT games in a head-exploding row and was enthralled; Bioware has a customer for life in me, if they don’t go down the route they seemed to be headed toward with ANTHEM, sacrificing single-player immersion for multi-player commercial gain, though I understand gaming companies must turn a profit. At a loss after MASS EFFECT, I scoured Steam for other RPG games and stumbled across TECHNOMANCER in my recommendations. The reviews turned me off, but I added it to my wishlist anyway. It wasn’t on sale; based on the meh-to-hate-it reviews, forking out $29.95 seemed a streach for a game that appeared likely to disappoint. Then I decided to buy it anyway, as I tend to enjoy a lot of things others don’t. Plus, as a writer who gets online customer reviews for my novels, I know how people will complain about - well, about everything and anything, so I figured I should determine the merits of the game on my own.
– Real player with 89.3 hrs in game
Short: Technomancer = Deus Ex meets Mass Effect. Personally loved it. Primary gripe is the karma system implementation and the need to return to one of the main cities over and over again to complete about 75% of the quests.
Long: Technomancer is a party building RPG, set in a futuristic world of politics and conspiracies. The games general ambiance from the sound track to the protagonist’s special abilities all remind me of the original Deus Ex. Only with Mass Effect 2 quality graphics and travelling/fighting companions. For those who played Mars : War Logs, the game takes place roughly parallel to the events of that game, but from a different perspective.
– Real player with 68.0 hrs in game